Frozen Lessons with a Color Poem: White
Learning to Snowshoe The thermometer on my phone told me it was seven below zero (-7) as I awoke to drive 40 pairs of snowshoes to a remote terrain in…
Category: poetry friday
Old School Poetry to Share with Children
I have been told am “old school.” Seriously, I have been told that in the middle of a day of substitute teaching for someone I knew well who had asked…
Poetry Friday: Poems about Place
Today is Poetry Friday. Early this morning my sister-in-law contacted me to make sure we were okay. She keeps tabs on us from afar, partially through reading my daily blog…
Poetry Friday: Frigid
Acrostic poems aren’t as easy as they seem. At the end of my last garden club meeting in mid-January, I gave the students a mini-lesson on writing acrostic poems. We…
Poetry Friday: Student Poetry Submissions
Today is Poetry Friday. We are headed into the time of year when I really miss writing poetry with students. For six years, I led a Third Grade Writer’s Circle…
Poetry Friday: A Color Poem of Yellow
Yellow is a daffodil trumpet, alerting us to spring. Yellow is the sun warming, making all things alive to sing. Joy and happiness, and even hope, too, have an aura of yellow…
Clumpy to Clear: A Poetry Friday Post About Clouds
For close to two years now I have been watching clouds with concern. In July of 2017, I started a post that went like this, ” I said it again…
